Claudius takes smiling note of Nightingale's restored energy when connecting two threads of speculation. It's a charming trait, to add to the other charming traits. "We're such different men, Nightingale," he says, even if they share the pleasure of connecting dots. "I was envisioning a remedy wherein I become as charming and entertaining as possible, to tempt the forces into acting more directly, so we can use them in some way to our advantage. Crowley thinks they may be influenceable -- he'd expressed some impassioned criticism in their direction before the zombie attack. If they lose interest with us altogether, they might leave us here like toys in a toybox to languish." He adds, "We think the forces know us through stories that have been told about us, before they pulled us here. I have my play, Crowley has Original Sin, and I wouldn't be surprised if Susan's Narnia was in a book like Queen Janet's Fillory. And you've led an interesting enough life. Someone's surely telling stories about you. You're someone's favorite character."